SNAP recipients cannot tighten belts any further

Casey Woodling ("Proposed food stamps will help program," June 17) thinks the poor here in Tennessee need to do some "belt-tightening." I've got a better idea: Change the provisions of the farm bill that send subsidy checks year after year to the same farmers.

Remember the Tennessean article on Rep. Stephen Fincher ("Fincher gets millions in help but cuts aids to poor," June 8)? Over the past 14 years, Fincher Farms has received $3.4 millions in farm subsidies. This is where the fat is in the farm bill.

My God, if the poor tightened up any more, they would be cutting off their own circulation. Then again, maybe that's Woodling's plan.

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SNAP recipients cannot tighten belts any further

Casey Woodling ('Proposed food stamps will help program,' June 17) thinks the poor here in Tennessee need to do some '